text:
Over the past several months, Alyeska Pipeline and the company's Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Hostler, have been under intense scrutiny by a Congressional oversight committee and an independent investigator, who has been probing explosive allegations leveled by managers that severe cost-cutting efforts could put the integrity of the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) at risk.
Allegations that major oil companies routinely cut corners in areas such as safety and maintenance have taken on new urgency following the catastrophic explosion aboard the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which killed 11 employees and ruptured a newly drilled well 5,000 feet below the surface, spewing hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf. Evidence has surfaced since then that showed BP scrimped on safety and maintenance spending, despite repeated warnings that such moves could prove disastrous.
It's no coincidence that Alyeska has been accused of taking similar risks with TAPS and lashing out at employees who speak up. BP is the largest shareholder of Alyeska and Hostler is a BP executive "on loan" to the company. BP exerts significant control and influence over the way Alyeska is operated, senior BP and Alyeska officials said.
Prior to being named chief executive of Alyeska, Hostler spent 27 years with BP, most recently as senior vice president of BP's global human resources organization. Before that, Hostler was head of BP's subsidiary in Colombia.
A top BP Alaska official asked, in light of the Gulf disaster, whether it is a good idea to have Hostler, "a BP executive," running TAPS, "where BP can exert cultural and economic influence through the president of [Alyeska] as well as its ownership share, in directions that are not good for the safety and the integrity of [the pipeline]."
The BP Alaska official said the fact that both companies are plagued by the same safety and management concerns is evidence of a "pervasiveness of a BP leadership culture that is focused on cost cutting that reduces operational integrity."
"The pervasiveness is due to [Alyeska] being led by a BP executive [Kevin Hostler], and BP can wield enormous pressure on the other owners [of the pipeline] who to a large extent share a desire to operate the pipeline with as little cost as possible," the BP executive said.
Hostler has come under fire for his management style. According to a copy of a confidential employee work survey obtained by Truthout, Hostler was described as "a narcissistic despot who will be remembered for his management style of intimidation and fear."
"At the senior management level, [Hostler] has made a mockery of the [Open Work Environment] system by neutering our VPs and Directors who are openly afraid to disagree with his initiatives, even when it is detrimental to TAPS," says a copy of the survey.
Other surveys provided to Truthout contained similar descriptions of Hostler.
Last week, Hostler was called into Washington for the second time in a month to meet with staffers from Rep. Bart Stupak's office. Stupak (D-Michigan) is the chairman of the House Energy Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations.
The meeting focused on the circumstances behind several mishaps, including a recent oil spill that took place at one of Alyeska's pump stations on the North Slope, which forced the company to shut down TAPS for more than three days in May, and the loss of communication connections used to control pumps and valves at the northern end of pipeline system that also forced its temporary closure.
Staffers also queried Hostler about the findings of an investigation, that recently concluded, conducted by Charles Thebaud, an attorney with the law firm Morgan Lewis. The probe was sparked in February after some Alyeska managers anonymously filed complaints with BP's Office of the Ombudsman about a number of issues, including failures to address matters concerning safety and maintenance and a controversial decision Hostler made last year to relocate about 30 safety and integrity management engineers from Fairbanks to Anchorage, Alaska – hundreds of miles away from the pipeline.
TAPS transports crude oil from production fields in Prudhoe Bay to Valdez for deepwater tanker loading. It moves anywhere from 600,000 to 700,000 barrels of oil per day, which represents approximately15 percent of US crude oil production.
Internal Revolt
Hundreds of pages of internal Alyeska documents and emails obtained by Truthout and interviews with more than a dozen senior employees show Hostler and senior Alyeska executives ignored dozens of warnings from employees over the past year that deferring critical maintenance projects and implementing budget cuts could expose the aging pipeline to further vulnerability.
According to one of several emails sent to BP's Office of the Ombudsman since last December, "the budget cuts over the last couple of years is creating a large 'bow wave' of deferred projects and program work … The oversight of the integrity of the system is at risk."
"Reductions in the budgets for the Aboveground [pipeline] program; fuel gas line; and mainline pipe can place the integrity of the system at risk," the email says. "There is a risk ranking exercise that is used and the concern that the risk ranking is being used primarily for budget reductions and although work is shown as lower risk it still should be done to protect the environment."
The employee who wrote the email alleged that Alyeska's 2010 budget was cut from $680 million to $600 million on orders from BP.
Do you like this? Click here to have Truthout delivered to your email, daily.
But the move that led several Alyeska managers to reach out to BP's Office of the Ombudsman was a controversial plan Hostler initiated last November, now close to being fully implemented, to relocate 30 integrity management, safety and environmental employees to Anchorage from Fairbanks, despite the findings of a 39-page internal analysis prepared by Alyeska managers that said, "the best location for the Integrity Management teams from a business efficiency, regulatory compliance, and Integrity/Safety risk standpoint is the Fairbanks location."
Essentially, what Hostler has done is reverse a decision made in 1997 by then-Alyeska President Bob Malone to move employees from Anchorage to Fairbanks to be closer to the pipeline so they could easily access it in the event of a spill or to perform monitoring and maintenance functions.
"You put your employees on the pipeline and in Valdez, it will improve safety because you're right there," Malone said at the time. "It's clear communication; it's clear lines of authority; it's clear accountability, which is most important to me."
The relocation affects about 30 engineers, scientists and technicians who are directly responsible for the monitoring and maintenance of the integrity, safety and environmental compliance of TAPS. About 10 contractors are also included in the plan.
"The job functions of these Alyeska personnel and their support contractors requires frequent interface with TAPS facilities and personnel operating these facilities," states a confidential email sent February 18 to BP's ombudsman's office and Rep. David Guttenberg (D-Fairbanks), who has been the lone voice in state political circles trying to get federal and state officials and owner representatives of the pipeline from ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil to take action.
"Their current Fairbanks offices are centrally located to the TAPS right-of-way which is a recognized logistical advantage in performing their work activities," the email said. "[This in fact is why these personnel are still located in Fairbanks]. If these personnel are required to operate from an Anchorage office, there will be a significant increase in annual travel costs and time to reach TAPS facilities and an associated decrease in work efficiency. This increase travel time will also have a direct impact on worker safety due to increased air and road travel exposure."
If integrity management employees need to immediately respond to an incident on the pipeline, they will now have to travel by airplane to Fairbanks then drive to the area of the pipeline that requires attention. The pipeline does not run through Anchorage.
An email sent to senior Alyeska executives last November by Greg Jones, the company's senior VP of technical support, said, "the goal is to complete the centralization of functions and have as much back office staff as possible based out of [headquarters] to achieve the efficiencies that this model presents."
"All support groups should be looking at Valdez in addition to Fairbanks and asking what the business purpose is for staff to be based in either of these locations," Jones wrote. "The bias needs to be in favor of them working in Anchorage unless there is a compelling business case to the contrary."
Employees familiar with the chain of events that unraveled over the last nine months have indicated to Truthout that Tom Webb, Alyeska's manager of integrity management urged Brian Tuminello, the director of engineering, and senior Vice Presidents Mike Joynor and Jones to support the relocation review. These senior managers and executives agreed with the analysis, but were afraid to openly defend it against Hostler for fear of losing their jobs, employees knowledgeable about their discussions said.
An internal Alyeska email sent to employees in February said the company expects to save about $4 million by reducing its "real-estate footprint" in Fairbanks.
Michelle Egan, a spokeswoman for Alyeska, said, "staff were transferred to Anchorage because of the efficiency and synergy that is gained when they are co-located with the rest of their departments."
"This was true for engineering as it was for other departments, like environment. Integrity engineers are now co-located in Anchorage with other engineering disciplines and with project personnel, with whom they work closely," Egan said. Additionally, Hostler "felt it was worth it to make the move not just because the company would save $4 million, but because what we would gain as an organization to be together in the same location. Staff who need to physically inspect the 800 mile pipeline can access the pipeline from many locations, including Anchorage which is a transportation hub."
Guttenberg said Egan's statement doesn't make sense.
"Sure, Anchorage is a transportation hub – but it is nowhere near the pipeline," said Guttenberg, who spent 25 years working on the pipeline before entering politics. "Fairbanks is also a transportation hub and it is centrally located ON the TAPS right-of-way. In just about every case it would be quicker for staff to reach a section of pipeline from Fairbanks than from Anchorage."
Moreover, Guttenberg said, "For Alyeska to argue it's more important for these personnel to be physically located with other staff than it is for them to be physically located next to the line is absurd. They have it completely backwards on this, and I think any reasonable person will see it that way."
Egan said TAPS has been "substantially reconfigured" since Malone implemented the move from Anchorage to Fairbanks, 13 years ago, via new automated pump stations and the company no longer needs to have integrity management employees located in the direct vicinity of the pipeline.
One Alyeska employee noted, in response to Egan's statements, "automation at the pump stations has nothing to do with monitoring the integrity of the pipeline system."
"If anything, an aging 35 year old pipeline needs more people nearby monitoring it that it did 10 or 20 years ago," this employee said.
The BP Alaska official agreed.
"There is a cogent argument for closer TAPS attention because of its age and lower flow rate that create new and unique integrity concerns," the BP executive said. "It was the age, the lower flow rates that created the new and unique corrosion opportunities that resulted in the 2006 oil spills on the North Slope. There needs to be more public attention on this because the environment is so bad for BP right now it is an opportunity to press the case as yet another example of how BP runs things."
Guttenberg sent a letter to Alaska's Joint Pipeline Office June 14, saying he is "concerned that Alyeska is making changes that leaves Alaskans vulnerable to possible economic and environmental strife…. These cost-cutting measures lead me to believe that Alyeska is on a perilous path considering all the things that can go wrong on a rapidly aging 800 mile pipeline."
"The Deepwater Horizon disaster and the recent spill at pump station 9 on TAPS ought to serve as a wakeup call for everyone involved in overseeing and maintaining the integrity of Alaska's oil and gas infrastructure," Guttenberg said in a letter he sent June 14 to Mike Thompson, the state pipeline coordinator at the Joint Pipeline Office. Guttenberg said he was most concerned that the Joint Pipeline Office has failed to conduct adequate oversight of the way Alyeska operates TAPS and he asked the agency to provide him with a detailed explanation describing the oversight it has conducted in light of the relocation of personnel and the spill at pump station 9. Guttenberg said the Joint Pipeline Office has not yet responded to his query. A spokesperson for the agency did not return calls for comment.
The spill at pump station 9 resulted when oil started to flow back into the tanks, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks and the site of several previous maintenance failures, due to a backup battery system failure. Because the power was out and the facility was unmanned, no one was able to determine the amount of oil that flowed into the tanks, which eventually overflowed and spilled into a containment area at the pump station.
Patricia Klinger, a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said in an interview that the circumstances behind the spill are under investigation by federal regulators.
Additionally, Klinger said a corrective action order was issued to Alyeska May 27 requiring the company to keep personnel on site 24-hours a day, seven days a week and perform inspections every 30 minutes for "leaks and any abnormal operations or activities."
In an email sent to employees by Joynor, Alyeska's senior vice president of operations, following the meeting with Congressional staffers, said the company determined that the incident was caused by a "combination of causes," including "several technical and design issues" and "a standard process to review procedures either weren't done or were inadequate."
Klinger noted that PHMSA inspectors are scheduled to be in Alaska later this summer to inspect the pipeline and will also "look at [Alyeska's] documents and records" to ensure the company is in compliance.
The Ombudsman
Stanley Sporkin is a retired judge and former general counsel of the CIA, who was tapped by Malone in late 2006 as BP's ombudsman following revelations in the aftermath of the largest oil spill on the North Slope that year that the company – along with Alyeska – retaliated against employees who brought up safety concerns and failed to perform routine maintenance at its production facilities and corrosion inspections on its pipelines.
Since his tenure, his office has registered 202 employee concerns, more than half of which were generated from BP Alaska, a majority of which involves safety issues and retaliation, according to a previously unreleased letter Sporkin prepared in February for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Because Sporkin's work as an ombudsman strictly involves BP-related matters, it seemed odd that Alyeska employees would contact his office to file their complaints.
Asked why BP's ombudsman had become involved in the matter if, as BP has publicly stated, the company does not interfere with the way Alyeska is operated, Steve Rinehart, a spokesman for BP Alaska, said, "the Ombudsman's office runs independently of BP. BP does not control who contacts the Ombudsman's office."
"BP was informed by the Ombudsman's office that the Ombudsman's office had received a concern from an individual stating he/she was an employee of Alyeska, "Rinehart said. "BP informed Alyeska of the employee concern. While this is a matter for Alyeska, we have encouraged the Ombudsman's office to provide Alyeska with any information that the Ombudsman's office may have which might be relevant to the concern."
It turns out that Sporkin's deputy, Billie Garde, a partner in the law firm Clifford & Garde, had previously worked for Alyeska; and, years ago, Garde represented numerous whistleblowers that Alyeska had retaliated against and fired and the ombudsman's office was contacted by an Alyeska manager as a result of her past work on behalf of employees who formerly worked for the company, according to an email sent to the ombudsman's office late last year.
That email said there is "an extreme level of fear and chilling effect at Alyeska to bring concerns forward" because Hostler is retaliatory and has threatened to fire employees who disagree with him or oppose him.
"The current work environment for the past 3 to 4 years has become progressively worse," says the email. "People are afraid to speak up on safety and integrity issues for fear of retaliation. [Hostler] has already done a lot of damage to the culture and character of Alyeska and the danger is he will do much more damage in the next year."
Although not identified by name, the email sent to BP's Office of the Ombudsman late last year was also harshly critical of Alyeska's Human Resources Director Theresa Guim and Valdez Terminal Director Kathy Zinn, who were accused of advancing a culture of fear that permeates throughout the company because of their close ties to Hostler.
Garde immediately stepped in after that email was sent, according to people close to the ombudsman's office, BP officials and government officials knowledgeable about the events. Copies of some of the initial emails sent to the ombudsman's office were also sent to Stupak's and Guttenberg's offices.
Sporkin is said to have discussed the Alyeska issue with Lamar McKay, president of BP North America. McKay reportedly told Sporkin to just "deal with it" and that he did not want to have anything to do with the matter.
In February, a month after Sporkin's office was first contacted about the employee concerns, Alyeska, under pressure from Sporkin and Garde, hired Thebaud to investigate employee complaints about the impact the relocation would have on safety and integrity and the charges employees made against Hostler.
Thebaud, who along with another attorney, Jane Diecker, conducted interviews with employees in Fairbanks and Anchorage over several months, had previously conducted investigations for Alyeska and BP related to similar employee concerns.
One of the investigations Thebaud has conducted involved claims that Hostler had retaliated against one of the company's former senior executives, Robert Glen Plumlee.
In March of 2006, following a pipeline rupture that resulted in a large oil spill on the North Slope near BP's Prudhoe Bay facility, Plumlee, Alyeska's strategic planning coordinator, filed a complaint with then-Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, against Hostler and Alyeska, alleging Hostler placed him under surveillance and kept a secret file on him after he cooperated with federal criminal investigators who were probing Alyeska and BP for environmental-related crimes.
The investigation was launched following revelations that BP and Alyeska failed to conduct corrosion inspections on its pipelines.
Plumlee said in his letter he was contacted by "U.S. Federal Criminal Investigators (Special Agents)" after he had met with Hostler in November 2005 to discuss a promotion.
One of the federal law enforcement officers who questioned Plumlee, Truthout has confirmed, was Scott West, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) former special agent-in-charge. West was the special agent-in-charge at the EPA's Criminal Investigation Division, who had been probing alleged crimes committed by BP and the company's senior officials in connection with the March oil spill. West said he could not discuss the Plumlee interrogation.
But Plumlee said in his March 17, 2006, letter to Chao that he was "made to understand by these Special Agents that I was not the 'target' of their investigation although I was reminded that lying to a Federal Agent was a felony and also obstructing justice was a felony."
"Understandably, I cooperated fully during three different days of interrogation by up to four Special Agents where they initially questioned me about environmental violations by BP and Alyeska, and then progressed to other areas where I provided a detailed account of Sarbanes-Oxley violations, Sherman Anti-Trust violations, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Common Carrier violations, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violations, and various technical violations any of which could be identified as an 'imminent danger' to personnel under U.S. Department of Labor [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] requirements and retaliation against environmental whistleblowers who had detailed numerous violations under the various environmental acts. Also, I named and implicated a number of Alyeska executives and BP executives and senior managers to the Special Agents. Afterwards, I was forced by Alyeska to reveal my cooperation with the Special Agents or be faced with possible 'termination for cause.'"
Plumlee told federal investigators he was pressured to boost estimates of how much Alyeska was spending to fight corrosion on TAPS. Severe corrosion in one of BP's transit pipelines at Prudhoe Bay, which connects directly to TAPS, was the reason the company shut down its North Slope operations in 2006 following the large spill.
Plumlee claimed that company executives pressured him in December 2005 to alter the amount of money Alyeska spent on pipeline corrosion – from $28 million to $46 million – for the previous year, which he refused to do. But Alyeska apparently got someone else to inflate those figures, according to previously published reports and documents.
Plumlee added that it wasn't the first time he had been asked to cook the books on corrosion spending. "On September 19, 2005, an Alyeska executive asked him to pull together the numbers on corrosion spending for Steve Marshall, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.'s president," according to an April 5, 2005, report in the Fairbanks News-Miner.
Plumlee said after federal criminal investigators interrogated him he began to cooperate with Thebaud's investigation.
"I provided Charles Thebaud the same detailed information that I had provided the Federal Agents," Plumlee said in his letter. "Charles Thebaud, and my supervisor, Nathan Brock, Director of Strategic and Business Planning both took extensive notes during two 'interviews' where I held nothing back. The interviews lasted over six hours.
Plumlee alleged that after his initial interview with Thebaud, "Alyeska placed me under surveillance and [maintained] at least one set of documents identified as the 'Glen Plumlee – Secret File.'"
"A fellow Alyeska employee, who wishes at this time not to be identified, surreptitiously shared this file with me. During an after-hours review of those documents I saw numerous handwritten notes in the margins that showed that a senior Alyeska manager was directing the surveillance of me during time when I was not at work. That manager had given specific instructions on how the surveillance would take place. I made the Special Agents aware of the so-called 'Glen Plumlee – Secret File' and that I also suspected existence of other files and dossiers. I also notified my supervisor, Nathan Brock, as well as Kevin Hostler, CEO/President to cease and desist keeping any personnel files that I do not have access to."
Hostler has never publicly discussed Plumlee's claims.
Congressional Inquiries
Thebaud recently completed his investigation into Alyeska employees' concerns. A copy of his report, which has not been released to employees, was turned over to Stupak's committee.
People familiar with the report's conclusions said it's damaging and is harshly critical of Hostler's management style. Egan, the Alyeska spokeswoman, said Hostler was not available to comment on the report's critical conclusions into Hostler leadership.
Two Congressional staffers, who have seen the report and commented on it after Hostler's meeting with oversight committee staffers last week, confirmed that it substantiated some employee concerns about the safety and integrity of TAPS. It's unclear what specific issues lead Thebaud to reach those conclusions.
However, Alyeska summarized the report's findings to employees in a company-wide email distributed June 30 far differently.
"Most of the concerns were not substantiated," says the email sent to employees, obtained by Truthout. "Specifically, the concerns about safety, integrity and environmental protection were not substantiated."
However, "the investigation did conclude that there are opportunities to improve the Open Work Environment," says the email signed by TAPS owners Charles J. Coulson of BP Pipelines (Alaska) Inc., Bij Agarwai of ConocoPhillips Transportation Alaska Inc., Gary Pruessing of ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, Michelle West of Koch Alaska Pipeline Company and Jim Avioli of Unocal Pipeline Company. "This is consistent with the recent employee survey that demonstrated there has been a reduction in employee comfort in reporting concerns to senior management."
Egan said Alyeska's "Business Practices/Employee Concerns program (which recently merged with our Compliance and Ethics Group) will develop a plan for enhancing the open work environment" to deal with issues of intimidation and fear.
A BP Alaska official and several people close to the ombudsman's office said Sporkin and Garde were "livid" by Alyeska's characterization of Thebaud's investigation.
These people said Sporkin fired off a letter to BP late last week stating that he perceived Thebaud's report did substantiate a number of safety and integrity issues raised by employees. Furthermore, Sporkin told McKay, who he had spoken to about the employee complaints prior to the launch of Thebaud's investigation, that he should order Alyeska to reverse its decision to relocate employees from Fairbanks to Anchorage.
Neither Sporkin nor Garde returned calls for comment.
Rinehart, the BP Alaska spokesman, said he was not familiar with Sporkin's letter and had no comment. Spokespeople for the other oil companies did not return calls for comment.
Egan said she was unaware of any such letter sent by Sporkin and she reiterated that Thebaud's report "indicates there is no substantiated safety or integrity concern."
Scott Schloegel, Stupak's chief of staff, would not discuss the contents of the report, but he did say it was "serious" and "concerning." He added that, while the relocation of the integrity management team was a "business decision" by Alyeska, the oversight staff intends to monitor whether the move will impact safety.
Alyeska "needs to know we are watching them," Schloegel said.
Klinger, the spokeswoman for PHMSA, added that her agency couldn't do anything about the relocation and echoed Schloegel.
"It's a business decision," Klinger said. "However, we'll be monitoring the move to determine if it affects the integrity of the pipeline."
Egan noted that the oversight committee requested a copy of the 39-page relocation analysis, indicating that Congressional staffers may not be satisfied with the company's assertions that moving employees hundreds of miles away from the pipeline won't have a direct impact on safety.
That document says more than half of the integrity management team "are accountable for and play a lead role in identifying regulatory requirements, methods of compliance and methods of monitoring for at least 30 federal regulations."
"All members of the Integrity Management Team provide key support to these Specialists in the execution of their duties," the relocation analysis says. "The loss of key contributors in the move to Anchorage would result in a loss of critical knowledge and skills that are required to perform the functions necessary to insure continued regulatory compliance. This loss will leave Alyeska at risk of receiving" violations from the PHMSA, "as well as potential enforcement actions from" Alaska's Joint Pipeline Office.
Alyeska is now having difficulty filling those vacancies, which Hostler had said would happen by the end of June.
"The immediate risk to TAPS that is present because of the business decision is that several members of Alyeska's integrity management team have resigned," the BP Alaska official said. "This presents a significant risk to the integrity monitoring of TAPS, emergency response capability, as will as a regulatory compliance risk. It is also clear that Alyeska has no plan to quickly place qualified and competent replacements in their vacated positions. The regulatory compliance risk is more than just paperwork, it represents a set of operating and maintenance standards that must be maintained and as the report highlights will be increased likelihood for violations. This is akin to [Minerals Management Service] not closely monitoring the compliance to its regulations on the Deepwater Horizon rig."
"When you combine the removal of personnel from some of the TAPS pump stations as part of the strategic reconfiguration project with this action, you are left with considerably less capability to respond to integrity issues or emergency responses," the BP official added. "The spill at pump station 9 is a case in point that it would have been spotted quicker and would have spilled less if any at all if that pump station had been manned."
Emails sent to BP's ombudsman's office and the relocation analysis point out that the any loss of integrity management staff will "set Alyeska back on progress that [the company] made" since 2007, when it beefed up its integrity management team after Hostler testified to Congress about corrosion prevention efforts on TAPS.
A careful review of violation and penalty assessment records posted on the PHMSA web site lists more than 100 probable violation incidents between 2001 and 2007, many of which are related to integrity management issues such as corrosion monitoring deficiencies. But since 2007, there has been a reduction in violation assessments ,which, employees argue, is directly related to the company's investment in integrity management.
The analysis further states that a relocation to Anchorage would result in the loss of half of the integrity management team staff. That prediction was borne out, according Alyeska employees, as eight of the 18 people who were asked to relocate to Anchorage quit and two more are likely to depart the company. Alyeska is now having difficulty filling those vacancies, which Hostler was quoted as saying would happen by the end of June.
Replacing these personnel will be a challenge, according to a pipeline industry report published in July 2009.
The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America warned managers in the pipeline industry that areas of greatest personnel risk are "positions that require significant industry experience and would be at risk from a shrinking industry workforce pool due to attrition, such as pipeline integrity engineers, project engineers/managers, and construction managers."


text:
- Home
- Government
- Public Works
- Solid Waste & Recycling
- Recycling
- What & How to Recycle at the Landfill
What & How to Recycle
Preparing Your Recyclables
Residential Customers Only, Please
Clean recyclables must be separated by type and placed in the appropriate bin at the Recycling Center. Cash is not paid for any recyclables other than CRV bottles and cans.
- #3 through #7 plastic (Clean, numbered "Food Grade" containers only, such as yogurt and margarine tubs, microwave trays, produce & meat trays or clamshells; laundy product containers, etc. Lids OK. No Styrofoam, food-contaminated items, tarps, toys, swimming pools, plastic bags, bubble wrap, folding chairs or other non-food plastic items.)
- Blankets, comforters, sheets, towels (Must be clean, dry, in good condition)
- Clothing (Must be clean, dry, in good condition)
- Mixed paper, including white and colored office paper, newspaper, phone books, magazines, and shredded paper in paper bags, paper gift wrap (No paper towels, tissues, used paper plates, paper napkins, waxed paper, plastic gift wrap)
- Scrap Metal (Place large items in scrap metal pile.)
- Shoes (Must be clean, dry, in good condition)
- Cardboard and chipboard, such as cereal boxes, shoe boxes, cardboard egg cartons, mailing tubes, toilet tissue tubes, gift boxes (No waxy refrigerator cartons such as milk & juice cartons or shelf-stable cartons such as soup, soy milk, juice & wine cartons)
- CRV bottles and cans for redemption (Look for CA CASH REFUND on the label.)
- Household batteries (Separate rechargeable from non-rechargeable.)
- Non-CRV #1 plastic (PET/PETE) (Clean, numbered "Food Grade" plastic only, such as: food & beverage containers; shampoo, liquid soap, mouthwash & other personal care product containers; laundry product containers. Lids OK. Put black microwave trays in #3-7 bin even though labeled #1 PET/PETE. )
- Non-CRV #2 plastic (HDPE) (Clean, numbered "Food Grade" plastic only, such as: food & beverage containers; shampoo, liquid soap & other personal care product containers; laundry product containers. Lids OK. No plastic bags, motor oil containers, tarps, other industrial plastic.)
- Non-CRV aluminum
- Non-CRV glass bottles and jars (Separate colored from clear. No light bulbs, lead crystal, ceramics, knick-knacks, beverage glasses, vases, eye glasses, picture galss, window glass or glass items other than bottles and jars)
- Tin cans and small metal items
Other Acceptable Items
These items are also accepted for recycling from residential customers at no charge. (Find information about business recycling (PDF).) Bring them to the scale house at the Landfill and you will be directed where to drop them off.
(Please call ahead if you have large quantities.)
- Concrete, asphalt, bricks less than 12" in diameter, no rebar
- CRTs, LCDs, laptops & other screens less than 36" on the diagonal
- Cell phones, PDAs, pagers, iPods
- Computers, home printers & copiers
- Empty propane tanks, valves removed
- Fluorescent tubes and bulbs
- Stereos, radios
- Uncontaminated soil
- VCRs, answering machines
- Vehicle batteriesOil – used motor oil and oil filters
Items With Fees
Materials for which a minimal fee is charged:
- Appliances, including microwaves
- Business-size printers & copiers
- Concrete, asphalt, bricks more than 12" in any direction with or without rebar
- CRTs, LCDs, laptops & other screens 36" or greater on the diagonal
- Organics (manure, yard waste, etc.)
- Refrigerators
- Tires
Non-digital electrical devices such as microwaves, small appliances, power tools, heaters, lamps, clocks, tape or film cameras, irons, vacuum cleaners and fans are not E-waste and must be disposed of as trash. (Exception: If they are made out of metal, they can be recycled as scrap metal. Ask the attendant if you are unsure.)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Send Results to This Email:
Street Address:
Get instant alerts anytime a person, business, or property enters the public record. Watch for sales, lawsuits, bankruptcies, garnishments, foreclosures, and much more. We receive as many as 1,000 records, notices, and more every business day. What data do we receive - and what will we watch? Click Here.
Just $1 per watch per month. For a limited time only, get up to 20 watches per month for FREE!
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
In order to provide a comprehensive result set, it is very possible that you have received duplicates or false positives in the results. For example, if you are watching the address 123 Poplar, then you will receive results from every reference to "123 Poplar" in our database, whether the property is "123 Poplar Avenue", "123 Poplar Cove", or "123 Poplar Pike". The same is true for names that you watch. There is no guarantee that the John Smith you have entered in our Watch Service is the same John Smith that appears in your results. Only you can determine the relevance or accuracy of the match on any name or address in your Watch.
It is also possible that our Watch Service can miss a reference to a name or address on which you are searching. For example, if "123 Poplar" is entered into the public record as "123 Ppolar", we will be unable to find that reference for you. Your use and acceptance of the Watch Service constitutes an acceptance of these variabilities and possible inaccuracies and, as such, you agree to hold harmless The Daily News Publishing Co. for any problems with these results, as outlined, and agreed to by you, in our Terms & Conditions.


text:
The University of Chicago will open a major new academic center in Delhi next spring, supporting and expanding opportunities for collaboration among scholars and students from India and Chicago, across academic disciplines.
The Center in Delhi will be a home for research and education for University of Chicago faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates working in India and throughout South Asia, as well as Indian researchers and students representing a wide array of institutions, and scholars from around the world.
President Robert J. Zimmer said the Center in Delhi will be an intellectual destination and will enable the University of Chicago to better support research and scholarship that will benefit faculty, students, and society.
"The Center in Delhi reflects the importance the University places on global engagement and our commitment in India and South Asia particularly," Zimmer said Monday at a news conference in New Delhi. "The Center will support the work of our faculty, provide a platform for collaboration and opportunities for Indian scholars, prepare our students with a much greater understanding of India, South Asia, and global issues, and contribute to intellectual discourse in and with India. Our goal is to create an intellectual destination in Delhi, where scholars and students from the United States, India, and around the world can benefit from the free exchange of ideas."
The Center will promote scholarship and teaching under three broad umbrellas: business, economics, law and policy; science, energy, medicine and public health; and culture, society, religion, and the arts. It will represent all parts of the University, including the College, the academic divisions, the professional schools, and the University's affiliated laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Century of research collaboration with India
Located in the vibrant cultural and commercial district of Connaught Place, the 17,000-square-foot Center will provide space for seminars and conferences, as well as faculty offices and study areas. It will host Indian and South Asian students and scholars, serve as a base for UChicago students and faculty working at other institutions in India and throughout the region, and engage alumni and parents in India and South Asia.
The new Center in Delhi will capitalize on a strong body of work already underway. A University faculty committee recommended the creation of the Center and has catalogued dozens of research partnerships between UChicago scholars and their Indian and South Asian counterparts.
Since 2010, for instance, students from the University's School of Social Service Administration have worked with students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences—established in 1936 by an alumnus of the University of Chicago's Divinity School—to examine social welfare organization in India, the nature of urban poverty, and local models of community practice. In return, Tata Institute students have come to the University of Chicago to study urban development, human rights, and policy formation, as well as visit local organizations working with the poor.
Under the University of Chicago's Center for Global Health, more than 5,000 medical students in India have participated in an "HIV Elective" curriculum, focusing on the science behind HIV transmission and led by John Schneider, assistant professor in Medicine and director of Global Health Programs. The elective was established for medical students within the Andhra Pradesh AIDS Consortium, a group of 25 private medical colleges in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society initiative, "Audio Cultures of India: New Approaches to the Performance Archive," will bring together faculty, students, and staff from he the University Library's South Asia Department, Music, Anthropology, the Computational Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory, to explore new methods for using scientific technologies to process large digital humanities databases. This will complement the Library's previous participation in the creation of a collection of early gramophone records in the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai and in the development of the Archive of Indian Music in Bangalore.
"After a century of significant research collaborations between India and Chicago, the Center will provide a focus for building on that legacy in Delhi and throughout the region," said Gary Tubb, professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the faculty director of the Center.
Provost Thomas Rosenbaum recently announced Tubb's appointment to the three-year post, in which he will work with the UChicago community to develop and oversee the implementation the Center's academic agenda. Tubb also will lead efforts to foster strong partnerships with Indian and South Asian colleagues, engage area alumni, and establish the Center as a model for international scholarly endeavors.
Creating a 'dynamic global network'
The Center in Delhi represents the University's long-term commitment to build relationships in India and throughout the region and will be an important addition to UChicago's international presence. Delhi joins the University's Center in Beijing, opened in 2010, and the Center in Paris, opened in 2004, in bringing together researchers and students to collaborate across the academic spectrum.
In the three years since it opened, faculty, students, and other scholars from more than 25 countries have visited the Center in Beijing more than 7,000 times. Paris and Beijing have been successful platforms for interdisciplinary conferences, partnerships, meetings, and other activities. Building on the University's presence in China, work is also underway on a Center in Hong Kong that will house a University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive MBA program as well as other University programs.
Chicago Booth also has campuses in London and Singapore, where UChicago faculty teach in degree–granting programs. The University's Oriental Institute has a presence in Luxor, Egypt, founded in 1924 and known as "Chicago House," which documents ancient Egyptian inscriptions and works with Egyptian scholars on conservation, restoration, and site management.
"The University's overseas centers, along with the numerous international activities on campus in Chicago, together create a dynamic global network for joint programming, teaching, and research activities," said Ian Solomon, vice president for Global Engagement.
Solomon noted that the Center will benefit from and support a large and enthusiastic body of UChicago alumni in India, offering social, professional, and educational opportunities.
The Center in Delhi is a wholly owned foreign enterprise operating under the name of UChicago Center in India Private Limited. The Center in Delhi will not grant degrees.


text:
Worship Music | |
Worship Articles | |
Worship Music | |
Fresh Fire Worship Group | |
Worship Clinics | |
Jazzed In Church Articles | |
About SpiritJazz Hear SpiritJazz Music Booking Information
Audio Samples Of Our Repertoire Below!
Here is just a few quotes from others about the songs we do in concert... "I am amazed at some of the creative, energetic jazz settings of favorite hymns! Very refreshing and uplifting"!! (Ken Barker ~ Word Music) " I am blown away at the number of Christian Jazz Artists and variety of great quality Christian jazz music being played by this group!! Keep up all the good work that you do for helping to spread the gospel with swing!!!" - Jeff Anderson arranger and instrumental director at Franklin First Baptist Church, Nashville TN. This delightful group features Big Band arrangements that are' jazzified' and alternate from funky, Latin, Swing as well as smooth and very mellow. It's great music!!!- Brian Soergel Jazz Vibes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Arivett's Contemporary Worship Music All of David's contemprary worship music is available for choirs, praise teams, or individuals. Fully notated vocal/piano scores, horn & rhythm charts, split and acc. CD's are all available for most selections. Visit the Songs Of David Worship page for more info! For Christian jazz arrangements, (both vocal and instrumental) check out David's new series of arrangements, "Jazzed In Church" series which also features Fresh Fire vocals!! |
"Are You Ready?"
"Are You Ready?", is Fresh Fire's premiere recording of fresh new worship music with a burning message. This CD contains a wide variety of styles in today's worship music. You will be truly touched and uplifted by this CD. Are you ready for God to do a new thing in your life?
"I have followed David, his ministry and writing since 1990; his praise and worship music has inspired countless numbers of people toward a closer relationship with God. His passion for ministry and heart toward God are very present throughout the FreshFire CD – a combination of powerful, original music with meaningful lyrics inspired by God's Word. One writer (David), one musical ensemble (FreshFire), twelve songs -- stylistically diverse with strong Christian impact – this equals life changing ministry. Check it out!" Les Stallings Music Group - Nashville TN
Only 13.99
Below are some MP3 Audio excerpts from " Are You Ready?
- ©2000 Songs Of David
- All rights reserved


text:
- You are here:
- Home
- Government
- Departments G - P
- Police
- Car Seat Clinics
Create a Website Account - Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more.
The Middletown Police Department recognized that 4 out of 5 child car seats are installed incorrectly and because of this, many accidents that should have resulted in little to no injuries resulted in significant injuries to young children.
The Middletown Police Department made a commitment to reducing preventable injuries to children by developing the Middletown Police Department Child Car Safety Inspection Unit. The officers in this unit educate the public in how to properly install and use child car seats.
Middletown Police Department has three police officers that are certified Child Car Seat Technicians trained to properly inspect and install child car seats. The officers undergo a yearly training to maintain their certification.
The Middletown Police Department Child Car Seat Safety Inspection Unit conducts monthly installation/inspection clinics by appointment. The unit conducts approximately 275 child car seat inspections annually.
To schedule an appointment, please e-mail Officer Karli Travis at email@example.com or call 860-638-4094.


text:
Vox, is not just a web psd template. All files are well organized, perfect-pixel and named accordingly so its very easy to change any detail. Also used a free font so you could directly download from the website. Documentation include basic tutorial of editing template on Photoshop, add/replaced image, change color, etc.
Best used for creative, business and corporate websites or even for a personal portfolio as well.
In the package you'll find 16 PSD's template with very organized layer on each pages, include the following pages :
- 4 Homepage Design
- 1 About Page
- 2 Portfolio/Work Page
- 2 Blog Page
- 1 Blog Page Detail
- 1 Career Page
- 1 Team Page
- 1 Testimonial Page
- 1 Pricing Table Page
- 1 404 Page
- 1 Drop-down Contact
- 16 PSD Files to Customize
- Properly named & grouped Layers for each PSD file
- Clean & Modern Design
Note : All images are NOT available with the package, just for mockup purpose. Information about fonts and icons is in documentation files.
Please take a second to rate this item. ENJOY!


text:
By Sushi for the Saker Blog
A famous Sherlock Holmes story contains the following dialog between Holmes and Detective Gregory.
Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
Holmes: "That was the curious incident."
A confrontation is taking place between two states over the alleged poisoning of a former double agent in Salisbury, UK on March 4th, 2018. A great many claims have been made. Few of those claims have been substantiated by evidence.
Since this incident appears likely to provoke conflict between two nuclear armed powers, it may be of benefit to apply the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to see what we might learn. It is certain the British people will not object to this use of logic and astute observation as employed by one of the UK's most famous and revered characters.
The following article contains information culled from public sources. The intent is to engage the Saker's readers in crowd sourcing the investigation of the poisoning of the Skripals. I have set out what I believe to be "accurate" or "known" facts along with hypotheses or conjecture. The reader is invited to comment and critique, or to add other public information known to them. It is hoped that this crowd sourced investigation may serve to ensure the integrity of the state agencies involved in this affair, and preclude the curious incident of the Skripals being used as a pretext to initiate further global conflict. Let us begin with a chronological summary of events.
Summary of Events
Sergei Skripal is a British citizen. Skripal came to the UK in 2010 as part of a "spy swap" after he had been convicted by Russia of passing information to MI6.
Skripal's daughter, a Russian citizen resident in Moscow, travelled to visit him at his Salisbury UK home arriving Heathrow at 1440 on March 3rd 2018.
March 4th at 1600 both Skripal and hid daughter were found semi-comatose on a park bench in the Maltings market area of central Salisbury, the police and ambulance services were called, and the couple were removed to Salisbury District Hospital where, as of March 18 2018, they remain in critical condition.
On March 12th Prime Minister May stated "Mr Speaker, on Monday I set out that Mr. Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a Novichok: a military grade nerve agent developed by Russia." and "This represents an unlawful use of force by the Russian State against the United Kingdom."
Any unlawful use of force by one state against another implies an act of war. May issued an ultimatum to Russia provide a full explanation within 24 hours.
March 13th the Russian government issued a diplomatic note to the UK government rejecting any state involvement in the Skripal incident. Russia demanded the UK comply with the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention to which both Russia and the UK are signatories.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3570734 (See Twitter note)
March 14th the UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats and/or intelligence agents, and announced other measures against Russia.
March 15th the UK intelligence agencies claimed the toxic agent had been placed in Yulia Skripal's luggage prior to her departure from Russia and the contaminated luggage was the mechanism of delivery.
Friday, March 16th, UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson said that it was "overwhelmingly likely" that the poisoning had been ordered directly by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
March 17th Russia announced the expulsion of 23 UK diplomats and/or intelligence agents, and other measures against the UK.
These events have implications with regard to the conflict in Syria, the NATO build up on the borders of Russia, the Mueller investigation of President Trump, and the allegations against Trump contained in a document created by a former MI6 agent connected to both the creation of the "Steele Dossier," and to Skripal.
In the next sections the attempt is made to "unpack" some of the extant reporting and attempt to determine the logical validity of that reporting. We start with Scenario #1.
Mode of Toxin Application Scenario #1
The Skripal's sit on a Salisbury park bench and a mystery couple sidle up and spray the two of them with a nerve agent which immediately incapacitates them. The "mystery couple" then walk away.
Evidence and its Absence
Since the UK has an extensive network of CCTV installations there should be video evidence of the "mystery couple." It should be possible to track this couple as they move through Salisbury both before, and after, the attack. No such video evidence has been produced.
SCENARIO #1 Conjecture 1
It is likely the incident was a team effort. In addition to the "mystery couple" there would have been other team members watching out for interference / observation by innocent members of the public. This surveillance team would follow the Skripal's and advise the kill team of the appropriate moment to move in and deliver the toxin. No video evidence of such concerted team activity has been produced.
SCENARIO #1 Conjecture 2
The team activity described in Conjecture 1 requires communication between team members. This would likely involve radio transmissions and would result in a spike in radio transmissions. These transmissions may have been recorded. This is especially true if the public cell network was utilized. No evidence of such communications activity has been produced.
SCENARIO #1 Conjecture 3
Most nation states employ counter-intelligence agents whose principle purpose is the identification and monitoring of foreign intelligence agents. The UK government has expelled 23 alleged Russian agents. This confirms the UK has such knowledge. Known foreign agents operating within the host nation are typically kept under close observation. A team of foreign agents operating against the Skripals would have been detected. No evidence of active foreign agent involvement in the Skripal incident has been produced.
SCENARIO #1 Conclusion
There was no team of foreign agents present in the UK and operating against the Skripals.
Mode of Toxin Application Scenario #2
The toxin was hidden in Yulia Skripal's luggage and she unwittingly introduced the toxic agent into the Salisbury home of her father. This new allegation obviates the need for an operations team on the ground in Salisbury and provides a convenient means to explain the absence of evidence outlined in Scenario #1.
SCENARIO #2 Conjecture 1
Yulia Skripal's luggage was not found adjacent to the park bench on which the incapacitated couple were discovered. If the luggage was the delivery mechanism for the toxic agent, and if the Skripal's did not carry the luggage with them on the day of the attack, then the luggage must have remained in the Skripal residence.
SCENARIO #2 Conjecture 2
If the toxic agent emanated from the luggage then it must have permeated the household in such a way as to be ingested/inhaled by the victims. If the house was not ventilated, this toxic atmosphere would have persisted over time.
SCENARIO #2 Conjecture 3
If conjecture 2 is correct then any other person entering the victim's household would also have been subject to attack by the same incapacitating agent. There is evidence to support this conjecture. Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey drove from the park bench location where the incapacitated victims were found to the Skripal household, appears to have entered the residence, and became sufficiently ill he then took himself to hospital. He is still under treatment as of March 18th 2018.
SCENARIO #2 Conjecture 4
The following is a time-line of events of Sunday, March 4, 2018. The only firm fact is the time of the victim's being discovered on a park bench in downtown Salisbury. The other events of March 4th have been culled from public reporting on the incident. The time estimates are my own conjecture based on a Google maps examination of the relative distance between the locations. The greatest uncertainty attaches to the travel time from the Skripal residence to the London Road Cemetery. Readers may have additional detail. If so please provide this detail in a comment.
Skripal Incident Timeline
REVISION DATE March 18 0028
0915 Skripal's maroon BMW seen in vicinity of London Road Cemetery
The Skripals are known to have visited the cemetery which
contains the graves of Skripal's wife and son.
1330 Skripal car seen driving down Devizes Road, towards Salisbury town centre
10 minute travel time from residence to the Maltings shopping district
1340 Arrive Sainsbury parking lot. Walk to Bishops Mill Pub
1415 ESTIMATE depart pub for 5 min walk to Zizzi restaurant
1420 Arrive Zizzi pizza restaurant
Skripal angry with demonstrated loss of emotional control.
1535 Depart Zizzi pizza restaurant
1547 CCTV capture of the Skripals on foot in the Maltings walk area
1600 Found on park bench in the Maltings walk area
Comatose, frothing at mouth, contracted pupils, vacant stare, convulsions
1615 Police summoned
1630 Police and ambulance response. Victims removed to hospital.
Time Budget Estimates
First Trip of March 4
Depart residence for London Road Cemetery and return
Estimated 15 minute travel time from residence to cemetery
Estimated 45 minutes viewing graves in cemetery
Estimated 15 minute travel time to return to residence
Estimated 0900 departure of residence for cemetery
0915 Skripal car observed in vicinity of cemetery
Estimated 1000 departure from cemetery
Estimated 1015 arrival back at residence
Estimated 30 minutes total car travel time
It is likely Yulia would have unpacked items from her luggage prior to going to sleep on the night of March 3 to 4. If the toxin was concealed in her luggage then it would likely have been released at the time of unpacking on the evening of March 3. The total residence exposure is therefore estimated to be in excess of 12 hours (midnight to 0900 on March 4) plus 3 hours in the residence (1015 to 1315) on return from the cemetery and before leaving for lunch in central Salisbury.
Second trip of March 4
Depart residence for the Maltings shopping district in Salisbury
1330 left house
10 minutes travel time in car
1340 arrive Sainsbury parking lot
1600 discovered on bench incapacitated 2 hrs 30 min after departing residence for the second time.
Salisbury Police Detective Bailey is reported to have been one of the first responders to the scene in the Maltings park bench area
Time Estimates for Bailey Exposure
1630 Bailey arrives on scene at Maltings park bench
1700 Bailey conducts initial investigation. Locates Skripal ID
1710 Bailey arrives Skripal residence and enters using key found on victim
???? Bailey becomes ill and drives himself to hospital
Time Budget
Estimated 30 minutes spent adjacent to victims
Estimated 10 minutes car travel to Skripal household
Bailey becomes ill after an unknown number of minutes in the Skripal residence
Bailey's period of residence exposure is considerably less than the estimated 12 plus hours of residence exposure by the Skripals.
If the residence is the site of toxic exposure for both the Skripals and Detective Bailey why the differential response time to the toxic agent?
A number of assumptions are made. The first is that at the time of the first police response to the Maltings park bench area, Detective Bailey had no awareness of a toxic agent being present. He knows only that two people have been found incapacitated on a park bench with one of them having been sick and vomited.
It is assumed he searches both victims for identification and, once the ambulance has removed the victims to hospital, Detective Bailey then proceeds to the Skripal residence. When he arrives and gets no answer at the door, he enters using a key obtained from the victim and commences to search the interior.
At this point very little is known about the incident. Detective Bailey may assume the incapacitation is due to a recreational drug overdose. He would likely search through the house and its contents seeking confirmation for this assumption. If he did find evidence of recreational drugs he would then advise the Hospital medical team of the possible cause of the Skripals incapacitation.
It is not known how long Bailey was in the house before he became ill. If we reconsider SCENARIO #2 Conjecture 1 it becomes clear that the residents of the household would have been exposed to the toxic residence atmosphere for considerably longer than Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey. The Skripal's had an estimated minimum 8 to 12 hours of residence exposure to the toxin but they only became incapacitated an estimated 2 hours and 45 minutes after departing the residence a second time for a total duration of 10 to 14 hours.
The evidence suggests Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey was overcome in a much shorter period of time. If the household environment was so toxic that Bailey was overcome within an hour or less, how is it the Skripals showed no effects after an exposure time in excess of 12 hours?
Scenario #1 the organized team attack may be discounted as no evidence has surfaced with respect to the activities of such a team.
Scenario #3 "From Russia with Luggage" may be discounted as it is awkward to explain the differential response to a household environment made toxic by bad luggage.
It is much more likely "From Russia with Luggage" has been concocted to explain the lack of evidence supporting the presence of a surveillance and kill team operating in Salisbury on March 4th 2018.
Such concoction supports the allegation that state agencies are acting in a deliberate way to create a new "dodgy dossier."
In memory of David Christopher Kelly, CMG (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003)


text:
SELAC, the School English Learner Advisory Committee, is a group of parents, teachers and school appointed staff whose main concerns are the welfare of the school's English Language Learners. Each school with 21 or more English learners (also known as LEP students) is required to form a functioning SELAC committee. It is an advisory committee in the governing process of the school much like School Site Council or School Leadership Team. This committee has elected officers and safeguards the rights of our ELL population. It is the school's job to keep the parents informed about the English Language Development program at SRHS, as well as our regular school program.
All are encouraged to become involved and actively participate in SELAC.
Please contact Ana Peixotto, Community Liaison at SRHS @ 485-2396
or by email firstname.lastname@example.com
SELAC meetings are held in the SRHS Library beginning promptly at 6 p.m. SELAC planning meetings will be periodically held in anticipation of official meetings to discuss items of agenda and coordinate with parent/teacher representatives and other SELAC school staff. Reminders will be communicated to committee members via all calls, mailings home/with students. Agendas of SELAC meetings will be posted here, as well as distributed to members prior to start of meetings. Meeting minutes will also be included on the website once available.


text:
'Fracking': Did Energy Department report clear up controversy?
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to release vast supplies of natural gas trapped in shale deposits can be conducted in an environmentally responsible way, a federal energy panel has concluded, but only if major steps are taken, including greater transparency by the gas-drilling industry, the close monitoring of groundwater quality, and the adoption of rigorous emissions standards.
The Department of Energy panel – the Shale Gas Production Subcommittee – created in May at the direction of President Obama to study the controversial fracking procedure, released its findings in a report early Thursday.
The report was hailed by the gas industry as showing that environmental concerns about fracking were exaggerated, but it came under quick fire from environmental groups, who called the panel heavily tilted toward the oil and gas industry and accusing it of "advocacy-based science." They said the findings could undercut environmental studies already under way.
Fracking by natural-gas drilling companies has expanded rapidly, contributing to a dramatic rise in so-called "unconventional" natural-gas production – from about 2 percent of America's gas supply a decade ago to about 30 percent today.
The gas-rich Marcellus shale beds lying beneath New York, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the Northeast could supply trillions of cubic feet of natural gas for decades. But the process involves pumping tons of chemicals and sand into the ground under high pressure, which critics say can pollute groundwater and increase air pollution.
Areas of concern identified by the federal panel included: methane and chemical pollution of groundwater; air pollution; disruption of communities; and cumulative impacts on the environment.
Tensions between the gas industry and local communities have been especially high in Colorado, Texas, and Pennsylvania, where fracking has already been blamed for contaminating drinking water and other groundwater and for polluting the air.
Methane levels were, for instance, found to be 17 times higher in groundwater near areas where shale-gas fracking wells had been drilled in Pennsylvania than in areas where no gas drilling had occurred, according to a peer-reviewed Duke University study of groundwater wells in Pennsylvania and New York earlier this year. Excess methane in water makes the water undrinkable.
Controversy accelerated in recent years when some companies dumped millions of gallons of fracking wastewater into creeks or into municipal sewage systems that were not designed to remove harmful chemicals and other elements.
Into that furor stepped Mr. Obama in May, calling on Energy Secretary Stephen Chu to convene a panel to conduct a 90-day study of the issue as part of the president's "Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future," an overarching White House plan to curb US oil dependence and shift toward clean energy industries. Shale gas is considered by some to be a "bridge fuel" with about half the carbon dioxide emissions of coal.
"As shale gas grows and becomes an increasingly important part of our nation's energy supply, it is crucial to bring a better understanding of the environmental impacts – both current and potential – and ensure that they are properly addressed," John Deutch, chairman of the Energy Department panel, said in a statement.
"The current output of shale gas and its potential for future growth emphasize the need to assure that this supply is produced in an environmentally sound fashion, and in a way that meets the needs of public trust," added Mr. Deutch, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and now a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Better data will help the industry "focus its investments, give the public the information it needs to effectively engage, and help regulators identify and address the most important problems," Deutch continued. "We're issuing a call for industry action, but we are not leaving it to industry alone."
To ensure that groundwater and air quality are not harmed by the innovative drilling technique – which involves injecting millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals deep into the earth, the study said the industry must adopt industry "best practices."
Key recommendations include:
• Conducting baseline measurements at each drilling site to establish the existing water quality in an area before drilling begins – and conducting continuous measurements of water quality throughout the development of the fracture well.
• Requiring companies to disclose the chemicals in fracturing fluid that are being injected into the ground. Drilling companies have so far mostly refused to disclose chemical composition under an exemption to environmental laws granted by Congress, claiming the formulas are proprietary secrets. Still, the panel recommends keeping "an exception for genuinely proprietary information" from the federal Safe Water Drinking Act disclosure requirements.
• Conducting a federal lifecycle analysis of "the overall greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas operations throughout the lifecycle of natural gas use in comparison to other fuels."
• Adopting rigorous emissions standards for new and existing sources of methane, air toxics, and other air pollutants resulting from natural-gas exploration and production.
• Setting up a database and website to collect accurate information on shale gas development and share it with the public.
From the start, the report and the panel that produced it have been hammered by environmental groups, activists, and scientists.
Some critics noted that the panel findings could undercut results of a major study of fracking's impact by the Environmental Protection Agency due next year. Others cited current and former ties of six of the seven panel members to the oil and gas industry. Deutch, for instance, currently sits on the board of a company that would like to export natural gas.
"The committee appears to be performing advocacy-based science and seems to have already concluded that hydraulic fracturing is safe," scientists at 22 universities in 13 states said in a letter to Mr. Chu Wednesday in anticipation of the report's release. "We believe that the best science should be done first to determine whether increased unconventional natural gas production is sufficiently safe – from the individual water well to climate impact and that policy should follow."
Gas industry groups said the report showed that critics have been shrill and the environmental threats vastly overblown.
"The report stands in stark contrast to the strident, hysterical demands for moratoria on hydraulic fracturing," Barry Russell, president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said in a statement. "IPAA believes that the report presents a useful starting point for further discussions."
Several activists and environmentalists said the report was suspect, at best.
"The public deserves assurance that the full economic, environmental and energy security benefits of shale gas development will be realized without sacrificing public health, environmental protection and safety," said Barbara Arrindell, director of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, a Delaware River Basin citizen advocacy group in a statement.
But Gwen Lachelt, director of Earthworks' Oil & Gas Accountability Project, an environmental group focused on the issue, said the report was better than expected. Yet she, too, noted that "Americans would not be fully protected" until the natural-gas industry's exemptions from key federal environmental laws are removed.
"While today's report outlines several helpful steps to reduce the environmental costs of natural gas drilling, it is unfortunate that the subcommittee stopped short of calling for the closure of a key loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act and other environmental laws, leaving communities living amidst the shale gas boom at risk." Ms. Lachelt said in a statement.
"The subcommittee's recommendations offer an historic opportunity for the president and our federal agencies to hold the natural gas industry to the highest standards."


text:
In order for IP to possess value, it needs to be made concrete in a physical medium. I've categorized IP into two basic types, based partly on how the IP ultimately derives its value when it takes physical shape. The two types are:
- IP that has value, regardless of - w/ithin reason - how it takes physical expression. If you purchase an mp3 tune, you can put it on your PC, laptop, iPod, car sterio, etc. and it will maintain it's utility for you (assuming you bought a song you liked). This is what we've spent most of our class on; basically, anything that can be considered "content." You can think of this like cash: stored value. Trademarks belong here too.
- IP that requires specific physical steps before deriving value. Patents belong here. You'll need, for example, to follow specific manufacturing steps in order to derive value from my newly patented cell phone design. I know that you can simply resell the design - for a profit, possibly - but here we're talking about how the IP ultimately derives value; at some point someone will have to actullay make the damn thing in order to realize a gain.
Most of our discussion has been focused on the first type. Both are important, however, but I believe the second type will eventually stand out as the most impornt for us in the upcoming decades. My thought experiment is of the second type:
Suppose I have recently discovered a method to cheaply manufacture Lipitor, a chelosterol lowering medication,and one of the best selling prescription drugs on the market today. All the equipment and base compounds needed are readily available at any scientific supply shop. The equipment will cost $100 initially and the base compounds will cost $10 the first month and very month thereafter. Currently, Lipitor will cost you between $140 to $240 a bottle, even at a discount Canadian online pharmacy. I start with the same base chemicals, a different process, and end up with the identical active ingredient (which is patented, as well as their own process). Also, the process is unbelievably simple!
Pleased with myself, I post detailed instructions on how to do duplicate this proess, along w/ links to sites where the necessary equipment can be found. I only ask that they affix a sticker on their device that says, "Peter's Home Lipitor Kit!" (Please ignore any other legal issues here, such as FDA regulations and the like; this experiment is meant only to to focus on IP issues.). My kit is such a hit that virtully all Lipitor user switches over to "Peter's Home Lipitor Kit." Lipitor brought in $2.36 billion for Pfizer, accounting for 19% of revenue in Q2 FY'04. Due directly to my success, Q3 and Q4 of FY'04, saw Lipitor generate only $20 million in revenue. Moreover, my success has inspired many amateur scientests to experiment on their own home drug making kits with other popular drugs. So far, home manufacturing methods have been found for Viagra and Prozac, with similarly devastating losses.
Industry leaders focus all their efforts on combatting this new threat. Some want to step up the effort and sue more sites that host directions while others, fearing that most P2P networks already have millions of copies available, want to take a more aggressive tactic: lawsuits against individual manufacturers. The best in Madison Ave. is enlisted to educate the public on how much home drug manufacturing hurts the industry. Smart and well meaning Law Professors at top institutions write law review articles arguing that the solution is "Medical Socialism." Scientific research institutions, private and public, protest that taxing things like beakers, flasks, and pipettes - very common items for chemistry - unfairly burdens them. The more conspiracy-minded suspect the HMO's are conducting the reserach behind the scenes and leaking the results. All the while, middle-aged men with high chelostrol hold hands in solidarity, proclaiming, "
Yu-shen-ko! Yu-shen-ko!""information wants to be free," and "Down w/ith big pharma and corporate greed!" All are in agreement that "this is the future of medicine."
Most people would agree this type of home manufacturing, independent of safety concerns, should be illegal. If not, at least you agree that not many of these Lipitor examples could happen in real life w/o big pharma going under and/or the FDA reducing testing standards to near nil. I argue that this hypo is similar to illegal file sharing in the most important way: Someone is unfairly gaining without payment from the profit-driven efforts of another. It doesn't matter that the good here is non-rivalrous - the "but for" reason the drug exists is the expectation of profit. The average cost to take a drug to market is $800 million. Seven out of ten don't recover their average cost. If this Lipitor hypo hit the top 20 drugs on market, there would soon be nothing left to copy as R&D funding pipeline dries up.
The content industry and pharmaceutical companies are not identical, but in the hypo, I've removed the biggest difference; making your own Lipitor is only slightly harder than burning your own CD. Here, all the same logic applies: I own all the equipment, I'm not dispossessing anyone of anything so there's no theft, it's non-rivalrous so no problem of wasting, plus, less people with high cholesterol. But this ignores the tens of millions of dollars invested in human trials necessary for approval so that when someone (correctly) "pirates" an existing drug, they can take it knowing they won't simply drop dead. They have essentially gained all the benefits of hundreds of millions of dollars invested in research and testing, as well as the institutional approval of the FDA for free.
But maybe the big difference is that musicians will make music anyway, because they're artists and will derive personal utility while pharmaceutical companies lack something analogous. While it's true that there will always be people who make music simply for personal utility, there will be, by definition, less musicians overall, and our access will likely be more limited. For the most part, the CD's available at Tower Records and the songs available on iTunes primarily represent the effort of the record label. This is because the majority of the value is derived from making potential buyers aware of the product and making it available for purchase. Record labels must provide some value add, or bands wouldn't keep signing with them when they can start their own. Three notable musicans: P. Diddy, Master P, and Jay-Z all started their own labels and have an average worth of about $300 million each. Big pimpin' indeed. But they are the exception, not the rule. The ability to make music and the ability to make money from music are two different skills and the reward structure properly reflects this.


text:
"Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days. "And the LORD spoke to me, saying: 'You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. And command the people, saying, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. "For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing." ' "And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab. Then the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.' " (The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.) " 'Now rise and cross over the Valley of the Zered.' So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed. "So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, that the LORD spoke to me, saying: 'This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab. And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.' " (That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day. And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.) " 'Rise, take your journey, and cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle. This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.' "And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 'Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot, just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.' "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day. "And the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.' Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took. From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all to us. Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.
Read Deuteronomy 2
Save verses, read offline, watch teaching clips, and more!
YouVersion uses cookies to personalize your experience. By using our website, you accept our use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy


text:
With the tone and substance of national policy in the United States in a seemingly bottomless downward spiral, threatening both the peace of the world and the freedom of Americans, it may be fair to ask, why talk about a woman running for president? The simple answer is that the best promise for improvement may well be in calling on the talents of humanity's other half, so largely ignored in American politics (actually, humanity's more-than-other half since males on average die much younger).
I sincerely believe America has scraped the bottom of the barrel for male leadership talent with George Bush. Indeed, in some ways this is true of both parties since Al Gore, while a far more intellectually-capable man, threw away the election with a fatuous, me-too campaign and insisted on blaming Mr. Clinton's past activities for his loss. Hardly the stuff of great leadership.
When will a woman run for president? When this question is posed in op-ed opinion pieces, the answer frequently offered is something along the lines of "when one decides to run." A very reassuring bromide that injects "choice," that most pliable word of American corporate-speak, into the discussion.
Of course, the reality is that an apron-strings, cookies-and-milk mind-set still dominates much of American society's attitudes about women. People abroad likely find it hard to appreciate the truth of this when they think of America as a place of rapid change and advanced technology.
But not everything is technologically advanced in America. You have only to recall the incompetent mess of Florida ballots in the last election for an example of how a technologically advanced nation can be backward even in areas of technology.
And rapid change certainly does not occur uniformly through American society. This is a nation where millions of people look for signs of Satan in children's books and attend religious revivals where folks are slapped on the forehead to cure cancer. One of the largest fundamentalist Christian denominations in the United States proudly declares that the little woman's place is to support her husband as patriarch of the family. The role for women amongst American fundamentalist Jews is pretty much what one would expect to find in the mid-17th century.
America's South, with its cloying ideals of belles, cheerleaders, baton-twirlers and cotillions, represents patriarchal values in the raw. After all, it is the place that spontaneously generates people who speak in tongues and handle poisonous snakes as part of divine worship. Almost the nation's entire supply of fundamentalist preacher-entrepreneurs, people who make a fine living out of refusing to recognize what century they live in, are incubated and developed in the South. And the South, due to changing trends in population, is the part of the country that has risen to great new influence in American politics.
The treatment of Hillary Clinton set a standard of viciousness no other society on earth, claiming to be civilized, could match. An intelligent and independent-minded woman was harassed and insulted for eight long years simply because she was intelligent and independent-minded. Undoubtedly, it all served as an effective warning that the Barbara Bush image, the smiling granny serving cookies and milk while overseeing ghost-written books about her dog Fluffy is the preferred one for the White House.
In a very real sense, Elizabeth Dole, who did make a weak attempt at the Republican nomination, despite the benefit of a syrupy Southern accent, was never a serious candidate. Comments on Ms. Dole's abilities, reported in the mainstream press, included her skill at descending from a podium and the fact that her shoes coordinated with decor.
She was always a weak candidate, having held appointed offices, with no genuine experience in politics, and someone who long played public cheerleader to her morose and plodding husband's political fortunes (some would say that alone disqualified her), a gracious man who returned the favor by publicly disparaging her campaign early on (What else does one expect from someone who actually bawled at Richard Nixon's burial?).
The strong, lingering smell of anti-feminism in America, kept alive by people who believe we should be guided by principles that predate the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, certainly helps explain why the most capable women don't run. Christine Whitman, former governor of New Jersey, is an outstanding example, now safely tucked into a lesser cabinet post (lesser as far as the Bush Boys are concerned – after all, what's the environment but a name for a photo-op?) where she is free to say virtually nothing – a very dynamic governor, whether you agree with all her policies or not, reduced to a cipher.
Perhaps, "can't run" is the more appropriate expression, since money, steam-shovels full of it, from private sources drives the entire American political engine. George Bush provided the definitive proof that a candidate most people never heard of and who had never taken any interest in national policy can win, provided only he started his journey through the primary campaigns with $70 million stuffed in his pockets and received frequent top-ups as he glutted the airwaves with numbing pictures of vacuous benignity. The sources of this money still do not see fit to trust women with command over resources in business, so it is not surprising they do not trust them with command over resources in politics.
Something is very wrong with national politics when a country of America's stature can't come up with a better choice than George Bush or Al Gore (incidentally, has anybody noticed the increased role of inheritance in the great republic?). America's rotten system for financing elections is at the heart of the matter. What other nation holds to a mindless equivalency between money and free speech? Presumably, if you pushed this legalistic, anti-democratic notion to its limit, big-money contributors would be entitled to do all the speaking in elections. Everyone would still have a vote, but only those with money could talk to them. George Bush's campaign hinted strongly at the future possibility.
The party system is also at fault here. Despite the countless chamber-of-commerce testimonials we hear about free enterprise in America, it doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone to institute it into politics. We have a virtual monopoly situation (actually, what economists call a duopoly) with two parties using countless dodges, gimmicks, and unfair rules to keep out competitors. Just a little room is left around the edges of all the high barriers to entry so that some suggestion of a free market is maintained, much the way small independent bottlers of soda receive a few square feet out of an entire aisle dedicated to Coke and Pepsi products in a supermarket. The restrictions against a third-party candidate's even getting on the ballots of all fifty states would fill a book.
New parties bring new ideas and new blood. Why does anyone believe that two parties are any more capable of this than if there were only two banks doing all financial transactions? Republicans in particular love to blather about "creative destruction" in the economy. Did it ever occur to them that the same Schumpeterian principle applies to institutions like political parties? The national parties have crotchety old establishments that do not contain many women or other fresh-thinking people in influential positions.
Methods of national debate also are part of the problem. So long as argumentative nonsense is regarded as debate, an immature and intellectually-dull national politics will continue. Negative advertising is only a small part of this phenomenon. Many talented people are repulsed at entering a contest where lung-power and attitudes play a far greater role than ideas or wisdom. This was certainly the case for General Powell, and I suspect former Governor Whitman. One could make a joke about this form of debate appealing more to hormone-driven males than thoughtful women, but in fact it does not appeal to the thoughtful of either sex. Yet it dominates American politics, just as dominates the airwaves with public affairs programs that don't inform.
Change in the way America does the business of politics offers the best chance for escape from the intellectual and moral sinkhole represented by the Bush administration. Such change would bring more excellent people forward, and I have no doubt that at least half of them would be women. And America would take a big step forward in its promise to be a democratic society, rather than one run by money with a semblance of democratic institutions. But in saying these things, I fear I may be pointing towards solutions whose very impossibility now leaves a sense of a settled and depressing fate.
John Chuckman is a columnist for YellowTimes. He encourages your comments: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
The Homer Farmers Market organization and board members would like to send a huge thank-you to everyone that has made this market season the biggest and best so far. Gratitude goes to, but is not limited to:
• Entire Homer community — your support is vital. Without you, there is no market.
• Volunteers — Kyra Wagner, Sara Conyers, Susan Miller, and more. We couldn't do it without you.
• Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Agriculture — grant support, information.
• Taste of Homer — Amy Welty, Dave Aplin, etc. for organizing the auction, raising more than $2,000 for the market.
• Market vendors — quaility products for a quality market.
• Market staff — Kayla Spaan, Jane Dunn and Katy Countiss, for making everything happen.
See y'all in 2014,
Robbi Mixon, manager
Homer Farmers Market


text:
I am a Copt living in Th United Kingdom and I edit on wikipedia english and arabic under same name , I will be trying to write on orthodoxwiki the article that I started or heavily edited on wikipedia
It is still not clear to me how I can put references on my articles and I hope this will be clearer soon I am sharing under the following from the policy [1]
What the Bias Does Not Mean
The MCB does not mean that non-mainstream or non-Chalcedonian persons or groups are unwelcome to write or edit articles on OrthodoxWiki. It also does not mean that such groups or their members will be the subject of polemic in encyclopedic articles, though some non-encyclopedic articles may include polemic from any point of view if it is appropriately labelled regarding its own biases. So, instead of saying "the Church of Greece has fallen into heresy, schism and is entirely uncanonical," we might say, "the Church of Greece is regarded as heretical, schismatic and uncanonical by Group X."
The best thing on OrthodoxWiki we can do with regard to any dispute, no matter what side we're on, is to characterize the dispute in the terms of the major disputants, rather than entering into that dispute and bringing the conflict here. That is, so far as we can, we try to word our articles from a neutral point of view (NPOV).
The MCB is not a judgment on any group or persons. It's simply a protocol for the OrthodoxWiki project.


text:
Spokane Drywall Pros
Top Notch Spokane Drywall Contractor
SpokaneDrywall Pros takes pride in the work we do. Since over 10 years, we have been providing high-quality services to the community as a drywall contractor. We offer a wide range of services, from drywall installation to drywall repair. We offer a variety finishes, including painted and textured walls. No matter what your needs are, we are confident that we can provide you with the perfect solution.If you have any questions or would like a free estimate, please contact us today. We look forward to serving you!
The Spokane Valley is a valley of the Spokane River through the southern Selkirk Mountains in the U.S. state of Washington. The valley is home to the cities of Spokane and its suburbs Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, and Millwood. The valley is bounded on the north and south by the Selkirk Mountains, on the west by the Columbia River Basalt Group, and on the east by the Rathdrum Prairie at the Idaho state border. Mica Peak, located south of the valley, is the southernmost peak in the Selkirk Range. The mountain, along with surrounding peaks, separates the Spokane Valley from the Palouse.
Audubon-Downriver, Austin, Balboa, Bemiss, Blackwood Neighborhood Community, Browne's Addition, Cannon's Addition, Chester, Chief Garry Park, Cliff/Cannon, Comstock Park Neighborhood, Dishman Hills Natural Area, Downriver Neighborhood, Eagle Ridge Community Neighborhood, Eagle Valley Neighborhood Community